"Thornycroft van as Jones butcher's van and a Bedford 0 Series as Hodges’ van. Each came with a figurine of the character. A special edition of Jones' van is available at the Dad's Army Museum and the Charles Burrell Museum in Thetford. Jones' van (Dad's Army) Jones' van is the butcher's delivery van owned by Lance-Corporal Jones in the BBC comedy series ""Dad's Army"". It is a 1935 two-ton Ford BB Box Van with the registration plate 'BUC 852' and appeared in ""Dad's Army"" from 1969 to 1977; it was also seen in the 2016 film based on the series."
"The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones is the fifth episode of the fifth series of the British comedy series ""Dad's Army"" that was originally transmitted on 3 November 1972. The platoon, during the course of a weekend exercise, occupies a deserted barn which turns out to be the target for some 25-pounder artillery guns. Back at HQ, Jones and Godfrey try phoning to stop the firing, but Godfrey has cut the telephone wire by mistake. There is only one solution: Jones will have to reach the barn before it's blown to bits. The reference"
"from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977, and a Doctorate in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona in 1988. Jones is a Distinguished Eagle Scout. A Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Academy, Jones served on active duty as an Air Force officer for 6 years. After pilot training in Oklahoma, he flew strategic bombers at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. As pilot and aircraft commander of a B-52 D Stratofortress, he led a combat crew of six, accumulating over 2,000 hours of jet experience before resigning as a captain in 1983. From 1983 to 1988 Jones worked"
"University. After college, Jones attended the University of Arkansas School of Law, and Keegan's School of Radio and Television in Memphis, Tennessee. Jones had a varied early work career, working as a store clerk, gas station attendant, and a ""roughnecker"" and ""switcher"" in the oil fields, before moving on to his long career in the military and public service. He was a very devoted son to his mother and during his late 1950ss when she was sick in a nursing home in Magnolia would drive each week the three hours from Little Rock to bring her her favorite dinner and"
"1941, and in 1942 Jones was transferred to the United States Army for wartime service. The Army assigned him to duty in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, in which he served as a staff officer, as a surveying and mapping officer, and as the commander of an Army mineplanter responsible for laying underwater mines. In 1944, Jones was transferred to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He served in the OSS through the end of the war in August 1945 and post-war until 1946. During his Army and OSS service, Jones rose from the rank of ensign to"
"who by the start of World War II is the 88-year-old caretaker of the Peabody Museum of Historical Army Weapons. In ""The Showing Up of Corporal Jones"", when Major Regan asks him his age, Jones replies sixty, but tells Captain Mainwaring later in the same episode his actual age, which is seventy. Jack Jones joined the army as a drummer boy in 1884; thereafter, he served in five military campaigns — the Gordon Relief Expedition to the Sudan (1884–1885), the Anglo-Egyptian Reconquest of the Sudan (1896–1899), the Boer War (1899–1901) and the First World War (1914–1918). Occasionally he mentions fighting"
"rose from being a footman to a horseman then a motorcycle policeman. His work resulted in being promoted to detective. During this time he and his wife Ethel T. Jones became the parents of two children. Their son John B. Jones was born in 1910. Their daughter Mildred was born in 1915. In 1917 Jones joined the United States Army. He was trained as an officer at the Officer's Training School in Des Moines, Iowa. Once his training was complete he was given a commission as a captain. He was assigned to the 368th Infantry in command of company F."
"Jacob Jones Commodore Jacob Nicholas Jones (March 1768 – August 3, 1850) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War, and the War of 1812. Jones' birthplace was on a farm about one mile northwest of the town of Smyrna, in Kent county, Delaware. His father was a farmer of exemplary moral and religious character and his mother was of a family greatly respected. She died when he was an infant. His father soon followed her to the grave and at four years of age he"
"of the red bemedalled tunic worn by Lance-Corporal Jones in the series, and others worn by the Home Guard. In December 2012, the museum bought the original Ford BB van used as Jones' butcher's van in the series for £63,100, including the premium. Because of limited space in the Dad's Army Museum, the van went on display at the nearby Charles Burrell Museum in March 2013, after a period of restoration. The museum is run by volunteers, and is open on each Saturday from Easter until the end of November, and on Tuesdays during the Norfolk school summer holidays. Admission"
"schools in eight years while her single mother, Lori, often held down two jobs to support her family of six. Jones' father spent most of her childhood in the Air Force and later in state prison. When Jones was in third grade, her family settled in the basement of a Des Moines Salvation Army church. During the summer when day camps were offered at the church, Jones would wake up early to avoid being teased by other kids if they found out she was living in the basement. When her family was about to make another move, to Forest City,"
"tore my biceps in my left arm again and I refused to pull out. Other than that [fight], chapter closed."" Jones was born in Pensacola, Florida, to two very different parents. His mother, Carol, was warm and easy-going, whereas his father, Roy Sr., was much like a Marine Drill Instructor with respect to his son. A decorated Vietnam veteran, ex-club fighter and retired aircraft engineer who had taken up hog farming, Roy Sr. was harsh on his son from early on, taunting the child, ""sparring"" with him, enraging on him, yelling at him and abusing him, often for 20 minutes"
"Welch family, one of the first seven families to settle Oakdale and to establish the First Baptist Church there. Jones graduated from Oakdale High School, where he played on the football team and was a captain in the Reserve Officer Training Corps. He was later the president of the alumni association. He was a radioman in the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended what is now Sowela Technical Community College in Lake Charles. For more than a half-century, Jones owned Magnolia Printing Company. For fifteen years, he was the publisher and owner of the"
"Samuel Jones (Confederate Army officer) General Samuel Jones (December 17, 1819 – July 31, 1887) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. At the midpoint of the war, he commanded the Department of Western Virginia, defending the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad and the vital salt mines. Later he commanded the district of South Carolina. On December 17, 1819, Samuel Jones was born at ""Woodfield"", his parents' plantation in Powhatan County, Virginia. His father, Samuel Jones, was a nephew and ward of Governor William Branch Giles, of Virginia, under whose care he was brought"
"young Jones' popularity among his peers; with home screenings of the latest Mickey Mouse cartoons, a featured event at his birthday parties. During World War II, his father, a pacifist and conscientious objector, was assigned for the duration of the war, to a civilian work camp in the Sierra Nevada, California. When his church abandoned him for not serving in the military, the Quakers in the camp embraced him, and he later immersed his family in their traditional ways. Uniforms in the Jones home (Boy Scouts, etc.) were not permitted; the YMCA would have to suffice. This minor restriction was"
"war ended, and was finally demobilised in 1947. Dunn resumed his acting career after leaving the army, mainly in repertory theatre, and soon made his first television appearance. In 1956 and 1957, Dunn appeared in both series of ""The Tony Hancock Show"" and the army reunion party episode of ""Hancock's Half Hour"" in 1960. In the 1960s, he made many appearances with Tony Hancock, Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan and Dick Emery, among others, before winning the role of Jones in ""Dad's Army"" in 1968. From early on in his career, his trademark character was that of a doddering old man."
"up, and a graduate of Princeton College. Jones' mother was Ann Moseley, daughter of Mr. Edward Moseley, of Powhatan County. Jones was appointed a cadet at West Point United States Military Academy from Virginia July 1, 1837, and was graduated and was brevetted as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Artillery Regiment on September 28, 1841. His first duty was on the Maine frontier, at Houlton, pending the Disputed Territory controversy with Canada. He was on duty at West Point, 1846–51, as assistant professor of mathematics and assistant instructor in artillery and infantry tactics. He was appointed assistant to the"
"Edward Jones (British Army officer) General Sir Charles Edward Webb Jones (25 September 1936 – 14 May 2007) was a senior officer in the British Army. He served as Quartermaster-General and as Britain's military representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He retired from the Army in 1995 to become Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (or simply Black Rod) in the British Parliament's House of Lords, serving in that office until 2001. Jones was born in Altrincham in Cheshire. His father was General Sir Charles Phibbs Jones. Uniquely, he and his father were the only father and son"
"Knox, Kentucky. On November 7, 1939, Jones left the Air Corps and formally transferred back to the Cavalry branch in the rank of lieutenant colonel. Soon after his return to the Cavalry, Jones attended the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas, for a 30-day student officer course. When he returned to the Fort Knox, he was elevated on January 2, 1940, to regimental Executive Officer. The 13th Mechanized Cavalry was a component of the 7th Cavalry Brigade (Mechanized), the Army's only combined-arms mechanized force in 1939, and Jones returned at a time when advocates of mechanization struggled to overcome resistance"
"23, 1916, in Joplin, Missouri. He was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, where he graduated from Southwest High School in 1933. In 1936, while in college, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, attending the Platoon Leaders' Class in San Diego, California during the summers. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1937 from the University of Kansas. Jones was commissioned a Reserve second lieutenant on January 31, 1938; was called to active duty on September 29, 1939. He completed the Reserve Officers' Course at Quantico, Virginia, in November 1939; then joined the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines. He remained with"
"a child, he went on house calls and hospital visits with his father, who was a physician. Jones's father died when he was 13 years old. Jones's mother moved him to a private school after the death of his father. He earned an undergraduate degree from Amherst College in 1931 and a medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1935. Jones completed a residency in surgery and then joined the U.S. Army during World War II, leading an Auxiliary Surgical Group team in Patton's Third Army. After the war, Jones was invited to complete a second residency in"
"and Hodges tells him to 'put that light out'. The Two and a Half Feathers The Two and a Half Feathers is the eighth episode of the fourth series of the British comedy series ""Dad's Army"" that was originally transmitted on Friday 13 November 1970. New platoon member, George Clarke reveals that he served with Jones in the Sudan and questions the Lance Corporal's service record. It is lunchtime in Walmington-on-Sea. Mainwaring, Wilson and Pike are in the British Restaurant, ordering their lunch. Wilson orders toad in the hole, and Mainwaring and Pike order the fish and potato pie, but"
"Virginia to protect the arsenal there from being taken by approaching Virginia militiamen. Unable to defend against an overwhelming force, he ordered the weapons and stores be destroyed, and retreated into Pennsylvania. Jones spent the remainder of his career in various recruiting, quartermaster and inspector general roles, becoming Inspector General of the U. S. Army in 1888. He died the next year and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Roger Jones (Inspector General) Roger Jones (February 25, 1831–January 26, 1889) served as Inspector General of the U.S. Army from 1888 to 1889. His father by the same name served as"
"sit with her for an hour or two and then make the long drive home to Little Rock. He developed a reputation for honesty and kindness, part of his political success. While he was State Auditor he drove older cars to conserve state funds and was always humble about his duties as a public servant. Jones first joined the Arkansas National Guard in 1938, but did not enter active service until October 1942. After entering active service he was trained as a bombardier and, at the end of 1943, was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air"
"Victor Jones (British Army officer) Lieutenant Colonel Victor Harry Jones OBE (b. 1898) was a British intelligence officer and ""visual deception"" expert during the Second World War. First serving with the 14th/20th King's Hussars in the First World War, he made a name for himself during the North African Campaign of the Second World War by using dummy tanks (and other fake vehicles) to mislead the enemy. In 1941 he was transferred to A Force in Cairo, under Dudley Clarke, to continue deception operations on a larger scale. Jones was born in Manila on 7 April 1898 to Harry Davis"
"11, where he got a job first as a cleaning boy and by age 14 he was working as an automobile mechanic. He boosted his natural mechanical ability and inventive mind with independent reading and study and the willingness to seek new pastures in his search for advancement, against the odds. In 1912, Jones moved to Hallock, Minnesota, where he worked as a mechanic on a farm. After service with the U.S. Army in World War I, Jones returned to Hallock; while employed as a mechanic, Jones taught himself electronics and built a transmitter for the town's new radio station."
"was different from the art curriculum he learned in school. Don felt release. At the age of 18, Jones registered for World War II draft as a “conscientious observer.” He also enrolled at Marietta College to study theology and medicine, but quit after the first year. At 19, recognised as a conscientious objector, he became a member of the Civilian Public Service Corps, and volunteered to work in the Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital for the following three years. Jones worked alone in the wards with the chronically mentally ill, eight hours a day, six days a week. In Bruce Moon’s film,"
"died in Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Samuel Jones (Confederate Army officer) General Samuel Jones (December 17, 1819 – July 31, 1887) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. At the midpoint of the war, he commanded the Department of Western Virginia, defending the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad and the vital salt mines. Later he commanded the district of South Carolina. On December 17, 1819, Samuel Jones was born at ""Woodfield"", his parents' plantation in Powhatan County, Virginia. His father, Samuel Jones, was a nephew and"
"Mum's Army ""Mum's Army"" is the ninth episode of the fourth series of the British comedy series ""Dad's Army"" that was originally transmitted on Friday 20 November 1970. Captain Mainwaring's plans to involve the women of the town in the platoon become rather too personal. Mainwaring is convening a parade, and is growing fed up of Jones' slowness. Walker suggests nodding his head whenever he wants them to come to attention, and Jones will understand. Mainwaring dismisses this, but Jones takes it on board, standing to attention and standing at ease whenever Mainwaring nods his head. Mainwaring informs the platoon"
"Roger Jones (Adjutant General) Roger ap Catesby Jones (1789–July 15, 1852) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and United States Army who was the longest-serving Adjutant General of the U.S. Army in U.S. history, holding the position from 1825 to 1852. He was a central figure in the distinguished Jones military family with relatives holding commissions in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, World War I, and World War II. His brother Thomas ap Catesby Jones won distinction in the US Navy. Of his thirteen children many went on to serve in the"
"station. He had served in the Royal Ambulance Medical Corps during the World War I (Pvt Edwin Taylor RAMC 100489, 38 Grange Street). Jones' grandmother was a milliner who owned a hat shop, La Mode, in the 1960s and 1970s on Abbey Street, Accrington. In November 2001, he was one of two candidates selected from four, to contest the safe Labour seat of Peel Ward on Hyndburn Council. He was re elected in 2004, and again in 2008. In May 2005, he was elected as the Opposition Leader on Hyndburn Borough Council and remained as such until his resignation as"
"Dad's Army Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers, and is still repeated worldwide. The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either because of age (hence the name ""Dad's"
"Charles Jones, 5th Viscount Ranelagh Captain Charles Jones, 5th Viscount Ranelagh, RN was a British Royal Navy officer and Irish peer of the late-eighteenth century who served on the Ireland station in but died aged 39 from illness during his military service. The son of Charles Wilkinson Jones, 4th Viscount Ranelagh and his wife Sarah Montgomery (daughter of Irish politician Thomas Montgomery), Jones was raised in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin before joining the Royal Navy. Jones was appointed in 1795 to HMS ""Doris"" and attached to the Irish station during the French Revolutionary Wars. In January 1797, ""Doris"""
"War, being involved in thirty major battles and countless skirmishes, and reaching the rank of brigadier general before the war's end. He was one of ten Irish-Americans to become brigade commanders and one of four Irish born officers to become a divisional commander. Born in County Westmeath, Ireland on November 20, 1830, Jones attended grammar school in Dublin for three years until emigrating with his family to the United States in 1840. They settled on a farm in Cattaraugus County, New York where Jones would spend most of his childhood. Because of his poor background, he received only a limited"